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    sTORI Telling

    sTORI TellingAuthor: Tori Spelling
    Publisher: Simon Spotlight
    Category: Book

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    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 reviews
    Sales Rank: 38671

    Media: Hardcover
    Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
    Pages: 288
    Number Of Items: 1
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
    Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.2

    ISBN: 1416950737
    Dewey Decimal Number: 791.45028092
    EAN: 9781416950738
    ASIN: 1416950737

    Publication Date: March 11, 2008
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    Amazon.com Review
    She was television's most famous virgin--and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed--and sometimes slammed--the same doors it had opened.

    sTORI Telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

    From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized--and misunderstood--"disinheritance," sTORI Telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.



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    A Bonus Story and Family Photo from Tori Spelling

    The Manor
    People are always asking about my parents' mansion, which they called the "Manor," but I don't really spend much time talking about it in sTORI Telling because I didn't grow up there. After demolishing Bing Crosby's former estate in Holmby Hills, a fancy neighborhood in west L.A., they spent six years building the Manor. It's about 46,000 square feet (slightly over an acre) and has 123 rooms. Not that I counted or measured. I got those figures from the press, just like everyone else.

    Anyway, we moved in when I was seventeen and I only lived there for two years. In some ways the house is like a normal house, but everything is on a bigger scale. It has four floors: the basement (which we call the "Lower Level," probably because that's its designation on the elevator) and the first, second, and third floors. The first floor has a kitchen, a breakfast room, a dining room, an office, a family room, a living room, and a projection room. There's a grand foyer with sweeping staircases on each side. Oh, and there's also a guards' room and the staff dining room. Everyone except fancy guests comes through the service entrance into a hallway with the guards' room and the kitchen.

    The kitchen is gigantic, and my fondest memory of it is from when I was twenty-one and had just moved back in after splitting up with a boyfriend. I came home drunk with some girlfriends, and we pillaged the two double-sized Sub-Zero refrigerators. There was always bulk food in there for the staff. We pulled out a big vat of chicken salad and a tub of peanut dressing, both of which looked like they'd been made for giants. Somewhere in the middle of our feast we decided to have a food fight, and the five of us started flinging food at each other. Soon we were covered in peanut dressing from head to toe and the pristine kitchen was a mess. Then we heard a ding, the elevator doors opened, and there was my mother.

    She stared at us in silent disbelief. I said, "We're going to clean it up!" She just said, "Mmm hmm," and left the room. I felt a surge of love for her in that moment. It took us hours to clean the kitchen, but it was worth it. That moment made it feel, for once, like home. --Tori Spelling




    Product Description

    Tori Spelling Reads Her Fabulous #1 New York Times Bestseller

    She was television's most famous virgin -- and, as Aaron Spelling's daughter, arguably its most famous case of nepotism. Portraying Donna Martin of Beverly Hills 90210, Tori Spelling became one of the most recognizable young actresses of her generation, with a not-so-private personal life every bit as fascinating as her character's exploits. Yet years later the name Tori Spelling too often closed -- and sometimes slammed -- the same doors it had opened.

    sTORI telling is Tori's chance to finally tell her side of the tabloid-worthy life she's led, and she talks about it all: her decadent childhood birthday parties, her nose job, her fairy-tale wedding to the wrong man, her so-called feud with her mother. Tori has already revealed her flair for brilliant, self-effacing satire on her VH1 show So NoTORIous and Oxygen's Tori & Dean: Inn Love, but her memoir goes deeper, into the real life behind the rumors: her complicated relationship with her parents; her struggles as an actress after 90210; her accident-prone love life; and, ultimately, her quest to define herself on her own terms.

    From her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized -- and misunderstood -- "disinheritance," sTORI telling is a juicy, eye-opening, enthralling look at what it really means to be Tori Spelling.


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    4 out of 5 stars Fun and Funny   February 1, 2010
    K. Irek (Sachse, Tx)
    A great look into the life of a celebrity.... Drama and bliss. Give you a new perspective on Tori Spelling. Great book and easy to read.


    5 out of 5 stars Great story   January 28, 2010
    RACHEL IMSAND (Semmes, AL)
    I read this book in about 6 hours. I could not put it down. It is very well written with a great sense of humor about herself and her life. I was a huge 90210 fan and I love watching Tori and Dean's show on oxygen. I loved getting the hear the details about her life and the relationship with her mother. Just goes to show you that fame and money cannot buy you happiness. Also that celebrity families deal with alot of the same issues that normal families do. Great book hurry up and get it.. I just got mommywood and I am looking foward to reading it.


    5 out of 5 stars Great Down to Earth Read   January 18, 2010
    H. Totty (Raleigh NC)
    I LOVED this book. I was a huge fan of 90210 back in the day, and I have since become a fan of Tori and Dean. This book answers a lot of questions as to what makes Tori well Tori! GREAT writing and a easy read! Could not put it down!!


    2 out of 5 stars don't waste your time   January 7, 2010
    Mallory Reinhardt (Largo, Fl)
    I thought I liked Tori Spelling but this book proved me wrong. All she does is pity herself. Although she is a woman in her thirties, she comes off as a teenager. She says she was broke because she would drop 50k at a time at stores, come on it's common sense, especially when she writes that her parents would never loan her money her whole life. Also she cries about only receiving 400k from her dad and that she know has to work her butt off while pregnant. what?!? she's clearly has no concept of the real world.


    5 out of 5 stars Great Book!   January 6, 2010
    MelissaLynn88
    This book was excellent! I literally could not put this book down. Great job Tori!

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